Today everyone is being sent to do missions, difficulty was based on their year level. As the team that Coco led recently arrived, students gathered around them, asking them questions about their mission. Of course, it was Velvet that answered the questions Team RWBY had. She had a sad face, though she kept mentioning there was nothing to be worried about the only thing that got in their mind was her words: There's just too many of them.

It was enough to tell that they suffered casualties on that mission. Civilian, Huntsmen, or even Atlesian Soldiers are the same, when they are killed or injured it's still considered as casualties. Even with the help of their newly released soldiers: Atlesian Knights and Atlesian Paladins wasn't enough to prevent destruction and fatalities that Grimms did.

Enough about the mission that didn't gone so well, it was their very first mission being accompanied by a Hunter.

"I can't wait to see who will accompany us!" Ruby squeaked, she was truly a Huntsmen at heart.

"I hope it's Jaune." Yang said, "I really wish to see him fight." she said, as she follows her teammates to their designated spot where their assigned Huntsman is waiting for them. The three gave a confused look at the blond, like they didn't get what she just said. "What?" she asked, truly clueless about what they're thinking.

"We already fought him?" Weiss replied, it was indeed a fight to remember, forcing three of them to the edge.

"Do you truly believed that it was his best?" the blond woman retorted, this caused Blake and Weiss to quiet down, while her younger sister kept on thinking about what Yang had just said. It was true, they were forced to give their best yet it didn't seemed like he broke a sweat. Some rumors ever told them that they'd just won because of Ruby, that she caught Jaune off guard and won the fight. It didn't mattered to them, a win is a win.

"I-" Ruby was immediately cut off as another man interjects.

It was none other than their history teacher, Bartholomew Oobleck.


"One way in, one way out." Jaune mumbled to himself, along with General Ironwood's commanders, the boy and the high ranking officials are discussing their plan of attack against the Queen Grimm. Sure, it wasn't a hundred percent that the Queen would be there, but who else could command Grimms to ambush those soldiers? That was the only evidence they needed to come to a conclusion that it is indeed the Queen Grimm who's hiding in that cave.

"We've kept surveillance since then. My men would know if it left the place or not." one of the commanders said.

"Activity?" the General asked.

"None, sir, it's been absolutely quiet. In fact, it's too quiet that it feels like nobody is there." the commander replied.

"But has our surveillance seen any Grimm lately." the boy asked.

"Yes, sir, take a look at this." he said, opening up another video. "Look... we've spotted that Grimm, hiding, quietly making its way back to the cave." he said pointing out the Grimm that could be barely seen if you paid enough attention. The commander was indeed correct, it was hiding, rather sneaking its way back in to the cave. It almost feels like it's spying the nearby military base that's not too far from the cave.

The military fort itself is heavily fortified, huge guns covering a large and dense forest that also serves as its camouflage. It also had an airfield enough airships to level the entire area with the power each ship is carrying. Each foot has a soldier that could gun down anyone or anything that nears that for without its authorization.

"Feels like they're preparing to attack, but why?" the General asked himself, massaging his chin.

"Over here." Jaune pointed out, "It's the nearest city, what's special about this city?" he asked, zooming the part of that city.

"It's one of the the three main factory that produce our Atlesia... My god, they're going to cut our supply of troops!" this caused everyone on high alert "If the products of the Atlesian Knights came to a halt, it won't be enough to protect the entire Kingdom of Vale for so long." Ironwood said worriedly, "Double the guards, double everything!-"

"No."

Everyone's attention turned to Jaune "Why?" the General asked, clearly not someone you should be arguing with right now.

"You just told me a Grimm is scouting our base. What would happen if you reinforce that base? They'd changed their target. How long does the Queen need to gather that many Grimm to attack another city? Their travelling underground, they can travel freely. What about us, we need a very long time to assemble enough battalions to fortify something." What the boy said made sense, but it got more into Ironwood since the boy is telling them to do nothing.

"We can't just do nothing and-" Jaune cuts off the commander

"Remove all of your airship on that base. Close at least two airports on that city, make it the Forward Operating Base for our aircrafts. If they suddenly managed to launch a surprise attack, our airships could easily bombard the oncoming Grimm, that would give enough time for our base to kill the Grimms that managed to get near. That's when we attack with full force." he suggested, pointing out the valid entry points of where the Grimm has the highest chance of attacking. But what Jaune said didn't meant that the base shouldn't be on high alert. Avoiding a sneak attack is still the possible result. If they hold them long enough for the airships to arrive and bombard them, that would make anyone's job easier, not to mention saving a lot of lives.

"That could work. If our theories are correct that the Queen could think like us then this is a great plan."

"Of course, this plan must still be kept top secret. We must be discreet" Jaune suggested, the others nodded in agreement, so did Ironwood. Overall it was just the best they could do for an enemy they do not know. Yes, humanity has won the war against Grimm, even so they didn't managed to end their existence. And in all those long years of fighting these creatures of the dark, so little had they learned.


It's been quite a long day for him, though it hasn't been so long, he drank a bottle of beer while sitting at one of the benches just in front of Beacon. It was almost midnight, the night was quiet and serene and it gave him peace. It helped him think about what has happened all these time, after the raid, him being a teacher even though he's just seventeen.

Now, this Queen threat might something more than just simple Grimm issue. It was the first time they'd learned of such creature, even their history books offered no information about such thing. What if the Queen isn't the only Queen? The world is still too big for them to tell, plus Vale is still not reporting this Queen Grimm to the other kingdoms, though they might already have a clue about it. There was too many unknown to be so sure of victory, and it might be too long when they'll see the true power of the Grimm.

After all, they are just waiting, waiting for that perfect chance when humanity is at its weakest.

He heard someone sat beside him, he looked at who this person was and it was the woman who had amber orbs.

"Good evening" she said with a smile, narrowing her eyes at the boy. She was certainly interested in this person, first it was a certain redhead who's a world renowned fighter, now this young teacher at Beacon Academy who showed great fighting abilities, and most knew it wasn't even his best.


He groaned, he was still in his bed. His room was very dark and no light came from the window, sure the curtain is blocking it but there had to be some light coming in if it was already late in the morning. His eyes suddenly shot open as he realize what the sound was, it was an alarm. He quickly took his shirt and head his way to an open area. Outside he saw Peter Port and Coco's team heading towards an airship with haste.

"Wait!" he yelled, also calling his weapon. It landed just in front of the boy causing a small crater. He grabbed his weapons and joined his allies. "What the heck is happening?!" he asked, still clueless about what's happening.

"It came from underground.." that was the only thing he needed to hear.

Anger fueled inside of him, he was waiting for this chance, to once more kill some of these creatures of the dark who are called Grimm. Part of him was really wishing that the Queen is there, if so then he'd finally get his revenge, not to mention Ironwood's forces are also en route to their destination. If that large creature is wide open then they could handle this much more easier, despite the destruction it'd cause- ending this was a priority.

"Finally.." he mumbled to himself, his right hand gripping at his sword.